Example sentences of "[no cls] [prep] [art] uk ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Splitting the figures into Eire and the UK , the former was up 19.3% to the UK 's 1.2% . |
| 2 | They are most widely known as company secretaries ( which is the function of roughly 20 per cent of the UK 's chartered secretaries ) . |
| 3 | In volume terms , less than one per cent of the UK 's international trade is transported by air . |
| 4 | Although electricity only supplies 15 per cent of the UK 's energy demand , it consumes almost a third of primary energy from fossil fuels . |
| 5 | After this tranche has been drawn , the Fund 's holdings of sterling will be 100 per cent of the UK 's quota . |
| 6 | Manufacturing was 30 per cent of the UK 's GDP in 1950 , but had fallen to 25 per cent by 1984 . |
| 7 | When we look at UK multinational corporations ' direct investment we again see the impact of the break-up of the Commonwealth as an economic bloc : in the early 1960s Commonwealth countries accounted for 60 per cent of the UK 's overseas direct assets , but by 1984 this figure had declined to 32 per cent ( taking account of current and ex-Commonwealth countries ) . |
| 8 | Now a new report , prepared by the University of Reading 's Department of Agricultural economics and Management , reveals that those small farms make up more than 40 per cent of the UK 's farming industry , but are of ‘ negligible agricultural significance ’ , being responsible for only 2 er cent of all the UK 's agricultural production . |
| 9 | It estimates that by the year 2005 , 8 per cent of the UK 's surface area and 4 per cent of Scottish fresh water will be suffering damage from acid rain . |
| 10 | Up to 94 per cent of the UK 's water voles will have been lost by the end of this century , according to a recent survey . |
| 11 | The plant , at Wolverhampton in the West Midlands , will employ 60 people and expects to burn 23 per cent of the UK 's waste tyres in its first year of operation . |
| 12 | ICI 's power stations put out only about 1.3 per cent of the UK 's sulphur total and 0.5 per cent of the nitrogen oxide total . |